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4 9/ u~ - _ : L t'''.-: M .P7"...-44-• " (;*: ;,: - .: : Pm , <V .93:11;1 • • / 41117 ' - fyi n--- : , -- 71'7,17 • - *; ~• I . • 16- 0 A ar c.' _ _ ~G~~ PER THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, I\ OVLAIBER 25, 1864. N°. 22,597. PRICE ...... ...4d STAMPED ....sd. carriage of Iron, the Ore from the mines of Lake Superior, and in shipping Coals in return ve...sels. These Mine., pro duced, in REMEMBER! WE WAIF SUPPER for you after the Covent Garden Opera, at EVANS'. Fail nnt THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT lATION LIMITE Are authorised A to SSOC receive applications for £2,800,00) ATL ANTIC Certificates of Debenture of the AND GR EAT WESTERN RAILWAY (New York—Pennsylvania—Ohio). Ono Of which 31 illien Two Hundred Thousand Pounds The se c have been already applied for. redee m d ertificates will be issued at £9O for £lOO to be 8 Per c een at par at the end of three years, with Interest at Al uy n.iti,per annum, payable half-yearly, on the 15th t guaranteed °f Novemberi in each year, the Interest being 14E CONSOLIDATED BANK (LIMITED), LONDON. TRUSTEES. Sarnu.l G urne y, Esq., M.P. John P. Kennard, Esq. Charles Mozley, Esq. EANKERS. The Consolidated Bank, London and Manchester. Messrs A. Heywood, Sons, and Co., Liverpool. SOLICITORS. 4 8 r t i f: I.rce.shfields and Newman, Bank-buildings, Lou- keBBrB 1 BROKERS, Ell, -oshua Hutchinson and Sou, 15, Angel-court ,-,.l.°Rtnorton-strcet, London, E.G. .(' Sitterthwaite E , 38 Throgmorton-street, Lon don, E f , , -q•, , bier,,, -• . T. Tinley and Sons, 41,`,13r , wn's-buildings, Liver. Pool. hles, i ". Chester, Shore an d K irk, 14, St. Ann's-square, Man. are .Mperial M ercant i le Cred i t Assoc i ation (Limited), Of cr er Pared t o recoivo Subscriptions for the above awcunt b Pea e rtlr'adYi fic ates of D e b en t ures, o f w hi c h £1 , 200 , 000 h ave a applicd fur. foll ot‘ e Ati:ntio and Great Western Railway cons i s t s of the The 3p in Line i n Newg Divisions and York Branches : a. in Pennsylvania • in Ohio .. 50 Miles; ,~ .. 245 - 385 tXtellBloll in New York (Buffalo) •• to Oil Creek in Pennsylvania .. " to Coal Regions in Ohio (New Lisbon) •• to Cleveland - .. 20 „ .. 67 - 163 Total .. 552 Mlles. sYste the Erie and Niagara Railway, belonging to same as e to) ao miles in length, is wholly in Canada, and secures G r 11°rIttous coal traffic over 200 miles of the Atlantic and n ow t Western, by whom it has been constructed, and is Th e owned. w ith route of this Great Railway, connecting New York chap, S t• Louis, a distance of 1,200 miles (without h /'re e i °f carriages or break of gauge) passes throng baeis tates, far removed from the scene of war. The compleed, and in possession of a tra c last the aY fairly be t called extraordinary. For September es e t i gross earnings on 322 miles open were, at ordinary of thri,!lge, at the rate of £1,100,000 per annum (exclusive bas of 10 per cent. paid by the Erie Railway on all 114,1:b traffic, which will probably reach £lOO,OOO per can,: additional), the earnings having increased since the t th e eti cernent of the year by 100 per cent. This, even at pay,ll3eesent exchange, would leava a large surplus, The Pow e „ llt ,ct the interest in gold on the bonded debt. Pre e -- „,.`° increase the fares will of course be exercised, if the /11'4, exceptional rates of exchange should continue. la tti total bonded debt over the whole system of the At. th e and Great Western Railway is £3,600,110, and with Dahtl 4 ,, ee Ption of proceeds o f b on d s £1,765,070, held by the by s'„ — ,„'„ t he line has been constructed with funds advance be e --,r.'"aliats, whose anticipations of profitable results have Parti al s ,a,r more than realised ; the railway, although only Vs eit Y developY w ed, exhibiting returns of tra . ffic and re. et e W hieh ithout exaggeration be designated un- Pled, wh e4 easy t „ this undertaking was projected,. it was foundnsecteaste threttv,Lobtain powers for its construction from each N a du which it would pass. This compelled independent eoelations and separate financial arrangements; the m it Tice„ien attending which has become so manifest, that raiei°B,eterfilined to consolidate the whole line tinder one ad -45. (ration. Pending the completion of legislative enact- D e b?) it has been resolved to issue Sterling Certificates of Pee ,„ Ilt Ure, payable in three years, bearing interest at 8 eoh -13 . 1 . Per annum, which interest is guaranteed by the . ad o soltdaed Bank • and the Principal secured by a deposit th ea ch e Trustees of Bonds and Shares amounting at usual lb al lg,e to £4,230,493. 'donds and Shares so deposited will be kept at the Ba n ff For °f England, in the names of the T r u s t ees , an d th e be o f b eclaration of Trust to be executed by them may res e 7Peeted at the office of Messrs. Freehfields and New ,The west °lll-elle R a i lway, of which the Atlantic and Great practically an extension, upon a mileage of about titeee-alue extent, but constructed at a cost ne?rly three t " great, has earned the present year sufficient . n?t desd o ° . Pay interest on allots bonded debt, but also a divi rem 4 10 per cent. on ordinary stock. The Atlantic and ih e iVestern Railway in addition to its through traffic Petr ol won with the Erie has almost a monopoly of the other eum traffic in Pennsylvania, with vast coal fields, and eeeettimportant sources of local revnu. The cost of its d e b t ettoction having been so much le e ss, e and its mortgage t t ,les s t ia „ st cluetly so much smaller, with an assured traffic "el l ht ( Nal, it is estimated that in ho three years, during Prts„ '-ue certificates of debenture run, the payment of the 'pf,Tal.will be provided for out of revenue alon . e. slimtininlaplreetors of the Erie Company have manifested the s in which they hold the Atlantic a ta n i d . Great its flit 4re la Railway, and the opinion they of tl leir r 2"Peefs, by contracting to fursupply e t ter its use, at 'Stern• -"11 expense, roiling stock to the exten uf one million fin . 1 114 ' resect-41-tlantic and Great Western Railway has been con and under Thomas W. Kennard, C.E., as engineer-in . t)tp, f 0 ,"4 under the immediate superintendence of an Port -r Feud agent of Messrs Peto and Betts. .A re: horn Sr S. Morton Peto, Bart., M.P., I , s ,su r, ' h ", e ' showing that the works have been ext.,. fOU 1 „7 rho ' most substantial manner. Appended are some Z -a tistice, derived from official returns, relating to the in eitse in the carriage eastwa r d s of produce during the past i I 's Years f rom some o f th e c h ie f cities of the West, with tth i ch traffic the Atlantic and Great Western Railway is tre n ry t eennee ed ; from these figures the causes of its r r aotelin a ,y revenue may be deduced, of De benture are in sums of £lOO, £5OO, s tid ert at p ct 00 each; with Coupons attached for interest, rte. f e i ,'ore per annum, payable hall-yearly. The interest - Z` Fs Whole term b guaranteed by the Consolidated at t . '14 ) :„ w , ra whom securities have been are Paya lodged. price ef ollowissne : fixed at 90; and the instalments l o fs r cent on pe application. 10 allotment. 15 17th January, 1865. 15 37th February, „ 17 17th Mar,h, 18 „ 17th April, —.. • 15th May ter, eBe.yertificates will be paid off at par, on sth Novem Th e et pa Int erest on the in v est men t, i nc l u di ng the redemption ilite r r ' , j oe U pwards of 12 per cent. per annum, excl us i ve o f stirn deferred instalments. bast e! scribers have the option of paying any or all of the Per ce ti lellta in advance, and will be allowed a discount of 8 Af t 4 t. Per annum on such payments. t•ityte" anotti ent, scrip will be issued to " bearer." On ter n et it of the final instalment, the scrip will be exchanged eediertificates of debenture with guaranteed intere!rt eiteh Yeasttached, payable 15th May and 15th November in less coupon £4 per cent. due on that day. 9, Groat George-street, Westminster, November 4, 18G4. SA -311.TtL GURNEY, Esq., M.P. P. KENNARD, Esq., and Trustees. Dear M OZLEY, Esq. T a Pitali Sir e)—You are aware that at the request of the ' • utnishing the funds fo . r the construction of 4eol t tuatic and Great Western Railway . , my Firm under -4 th e ° Pave responsibility of the supervision of the Works Vizle t , 4l he, to be executed under a contract with Mr It` 37, and from the plans and designs of Mr Thomas /t 4 tiff ' lln ard, the engineer -in• chief o f th e Railway. trZe the works were commenced, my Firm sent one of ~s e etit ' i" e xperienced agents, who had superintended . the ,'",, tet tDle., °4 of several large works, and who had been in its . the of thirty years, and entrusted to his Re h utpervision of the various works to be executed a It 6 ft Railway t - 0 41 to i- Ni citt e both to Mr. Kennard, the Engineer-in-Chief, 1 , - 3•o a l‘leHenry, the Contractor, that . . I should state the Z position we occupied, whicn might have keeellofttvidious one, has not in the slightest degree par e I, that character, Every recommendation of our t o ~QIIr ,been at once cheerfully carried out, and Mr. eery 37 OAS executed his contract with an honest desire o h s lip© 11 t every engagemen t i n a f a i r an d lib e r a l spirit. 488 b b. 11 ted and laid in a style fully equal of h our English railways, while the extremely 04rtle',;re nature of the country through which it pas i s n es n so few works of art, that its ma - el it 'o n a t - y e e e t e il d o t e o c t e ex s c a e ry ed the average cost per mile of our The stations throughout are of ample te l ll ,4 . 4 4 4lt et4 t i li n e n 7s . iding accommodation fully equal to the tlet very t the trafli p r ;.7_ satisfactory c to you to find that the En. th e %st:it th , ‘ 4l s states in his last report that , the traffic t the li t eipi d ' 416 Is sufficient to pay, at the Lien price of gold, assn rid on all the Consolidated Bonds of the entire 4' 50 0 at tni ng them not to be issued to a greater extent than h e lsl iiir o • (six thousand five hundred pounds sterling) per Its 'that . Estimates and predictions are so often talsi t tit thtilts fact beeomes peculiarly valuable, the more so t:,P,resent time the Rolling Stock is not more than R'he r equirements of the local traffic; and when the fe el i.l e "',-„ tc) ek. to be provided under. the agreement with c,"hie e - -e HlPany is placed on the line, these increased edi t „, ,eLleriot fall to produce an amount of traffic far ex ° 'go e stimates which have been prepared in regard k d e ar sirs, for Betts and self, yours faithfully, S. MORTON PETO. I~ ere "" in th th e —e Carrig,e of Procluco from Wet to East dur , v a st rive fears derived from Official Returns. CIIICAGO. . Total Grain. Fat Cattle. Pigs. 4 60 ........ 16,751,138b5b1s 32,500 .. 110,296 1 1 41, ...... 31,103,759 92000 .. 227, 64 ,S 6 • ..... 50, 19',87 " •.. 1 5,000 .. 289,091 .186 3 ........ 56,4 87,110 .. 107,.66 .. 191,135 ....... 5 4,711,639 .. 197,311 .. 862,200 MILWAUKEE. 186 9. Total Grain. 18co. ........... 6 550,896 table. 186 • 0,• •• • • ...... 9,09.3,0 0 „ 186 ....... .• 1 6,7.0,580 „ 186 3 .. • • ...... 18,732,389 •• ........... 1609'2,3'5 " Perk, B ef, Lard and • 10,2e6,400 lbs. .. 11,048070 „ • 14,68!,103 „ ▪ 30,553,. 68 „ .. 41,679,551 TOLEDO. 1860 Flour. Wheat. !Et! ""•• 8( 3 700 brls 5,01333; 0 162 ''''' •1,372,111 6,286,,936 •• •*' • • 1 ,585,325 9,827,6'29 „ BUFFALO. Cattle, Pigs, and Sheep. 209,6 8 281,495 481,801 Cattle, Pigs, 1 860. 'rotal G ra i n. and Sheep. 18 6 •••,. • . 7 , 0 89,461 behls. 14,040,303 lbs. 48s. ~.... •• 61,460,601 „ 25,999,823 „ ... .. •• • 72,672,454 • 141,120,461 •• respects. ~..* 6 ' 4 , 7 35,570 ' 149,428,804 •• Pet, jt;ir:ETROLEuM, in the carriage of which this Pe trol p r __„ a Y has principally the monopoly : youeed in 1859 . • 750 bbls. of 40 gallons 1. 1, 1860 ~ 50000 •• ) 861 .. 000 ,000 „ •• V 1 ), r , 1862 .. 2,000.000 ~ •• 44 .sti,‘_ , 1sv eitv.. % 1863 .. 2,220,000 " 1 1 is tj ;`,.,V g t ranch of the Atlantic and Great Western , t , el to the full extent of its capacity in the 1859 3863 Iron Ore. 05,679 tons. 280,000 „ Cop -er. 6,041 tons. 10,( 00 „ TRADE OF CINCINNATE—Some, idea , f the enormous growth of trade at the West may be formed from the follow ing statement of the va ue of the Imports and Exports o' le Wing staples at , incinnati : Dols Dols. 18;8-59 160,220,954 IE6I-62 179,733,695 1859-60 1 8 ,,384,404 1.62-63 1860-61 147,226,262 1863-61 578,870,362 ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. NEW YORK-PENNSYLVANIA -OHIO. No FORM OF APPLICATION. (To be retained by the Bankers.) To the Imperial Mercantile Credit Association (Limited). Having paid to the Consolidated Bank (Limited) the sum of I hereby request you will allot me Certificates of Debenture of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, and I hereby agree to accept such Certificates of Debenture, or any CAS number that may be allotted to me, and to ply the inttalmmts thereon, accord ing to the terms of the Prospectus. I am, your obedient Servant, Signature • Address in full .. Date T HE BAUGPARAH TEA. ESTATES COMPANY OF ASSAM (Limited). Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1812. Capital £200,000, in 20,000 Shares of £lO each. First issue 10,000 shares. 10s. per Share on application • 10s, on allotment. No Call to exceed £1 per Share, or to be made at a less interval than three months from a previous Call. Where no Allotment is made the Deposit Money will be re turned in full. A minimum Dividend, payable half-yearly in July and January, of 10 per cent. per annum, for three years, is secured to the Shareholders, to the satisfacion of the Directors. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " GRAND MO I'HE R'S MONEY." On Friday, Nov. 25, in 3 vols., MR. STEWART'S INTENTIONS. By the Author of "Grandmother's Money," &c. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. DIRECTORS. Henry Constable, Esq. (of the firm of Henderson and Con stable, to, Cannon-street, E.C., and Widmore House, Brom ley. Kent), Chairman. G. Bone, Esq. (Chairman of the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee), 45, Minories. A. Cohn. Esq. (late of the firm of Cohn, Feilm nn, and Co., Calcutta), 23, Cullum-street, E.C. *W. Eames, Esq., Calcutta, and Dibroohur, Assam. C. Seaton, Esq., 45, St. George's-toad, Ec3leston-square. J. G. Sturch, Esq. (Director of the Sugar Refining Company, Limiter), 21, Mincing-lane, E.C. T. Teil, Esq. (of the firm of John Tell and Co , Calcutta), Kid derpore House, Boltons, Brompton. * This gentleman will join the Board when the Estates are transferred. CALCUTTA AGENTS. Messrs. John Teil and Co. BANKERS IN LONDON. The London and County Bank, 21, Lombard-street, F.C. BANKERS IN CALCUTTA. The Chartered Mercantile Bank of In ia, London, and China. SOLICITOR. Clarence Harcourt, Esq., 2, King's Arms-yard, E.C. BROKERS. Messrs. Smith and Binney,s,ingel-eourt, Throgmorton• street, E.C. AUDITORS. Messrs. Deloitte, Greenwood and Dever, 4, Lothbury, E.C. SECRETARY PRO TEM, T. R. Eames, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES, St. Michael's House, St. Michael's-alley, Cotnhill, E.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is formed for the purpose of purchasing and further developing five valuable Tea Estates in Assam al ready in profitable cultivation. The Est tes comprise fu ly 4,600 acres, of wh i ch 500 acres are already p'anted in Tea gardens-125 being of four and five years' growth, 50 of three years, 225 of one and two years, and 100 just plant e d. Th e w hole of the lands are held direct frcm Government, either in fee simple, or redeemable in fee simple by the payment of ss. per acre, or on a perpetual lease from the Government paying 24. per acre per annum. The vendor pledges himself that the yield from the full bearing plants was in the year 1862, 180 chests ; in the year 1863, 250. The estimate for this is 4 0 chests ; and for the year 1865 at least COO chests, and 120 maunds of seed The vend( rwill ant as Managing Director, and remain in Assam on the Estatea for the space of three years. The purchase money is fixed at £50,000, payable £5,000 within one month from the da c of allotment, £2,500 four months from said date, £2,5 0 seven months from said date, and £5,000 ten months from said date, and the residue in five annual instalments, commencing in January, 1863, with in terest at 5 per cent. The Directors have the r.ption of pay ing £14,C00 of any such instalments, in fully paid-up shares of the Corn any, which Shares shall only participate in the dividend to the extent of calls made. The vendor defrays all expenses incidental to the forma tion of the Company up to the allotment of 'hares. The Articles of As , ociation f.nci Con`ra t with the vendor may he seen at the Offices of the Company. Prospectuses, with Forms of AppLeations for Shares, may be obtained of the Bankers, Solicitor, Brokers, Auditors, and at the Offices of the Company. PUNCH'S POCKET BOOK FOR 1865 will be published on the 30th intt,, price 2s. 6d. Punch Office, 85, Fleet-street. THE BAUGPARAH TEA ESTATES COMPANY OF ASSAM. The suAnE LIST of this COMPANY will be CLOSED on TriunsoAy next, the Ist December, for Tow,, ; and FRIDAY, the 25 December, for the Country. By Order. T. It. EAMES, Secretary pro tem. St. 1 1 Tichael's House, 2lth Nov., 1854. 01 10 E.—Crowded Houses ; Triumphant N Success. —St, James's-hall.—Professor ANDERSON'S Non - preternatural Mystery of hope-tying, or so-called " Spiritus' Alanifestations," illustrative of the bio-dynamic forces, which have created so great an amount of discussion in literary and scientific circles, will (BY GENERAL REQUEST) be intr :duced in the WORLD of MAGIC and the MARVELS of SECOND SIGHT every evening 'luring the week, and on Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock.—St. James's hall, Regent-street and I' coadilly. St ills, 3 ; balcony, 2s. ; area, is. 82d representation. GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH. THE SOLDIER'S LEGACY.—Mr. GERMAN REED'S New Opera di Camera TO-NIGHT, at Eight, entitled THE SOLDIER'S LEGACY, composed by G. 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Gran t Revival of NORMA (Norma, Miss Russel ; Adel gisa, Madame Maria , ; and Selections from MARTHA and LA TRAVIATA ; together with Looke's celebrated Music to MACBETH. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. LE PETIT BLONDlN—Positively the last Week. LE MONSTRE CHARME, by M. SILVESTRE. 'ihe D'AUBANS in their famous Character Sketches Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON MURRAY, and all the procurable Talent of the day. Instrumental Solos, 8 c., Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 108. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). PERFUME and BOUQUET, the NEW OPTICAL ILLU SION, in wh!ch the whole resources of the establishment are brought into requisition, written by Mr. W. F. Vandervell. The usual Operatic Sele.:tions, the Anthropophaglnian, ttc. Comedy by Mr. W. Randal', T. Stacey, W. Hilton, and the Wondrous Indian Rope Trick by Messrs. W. Hilton and Kelley. Also, Every Evening, at Nine o'clock, that Wonder of the Age, LE I'l 1' BLONDIN, being the last week of his engagement. Admission—Area, Cd. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, established upwards of 29 years at the Bazaar, Baker- street. Full-length PORTRAIT MODEL of MULLER, taken from life, is now added. Admittance, is. ; extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 till dusk, and from 7 till 10. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, Mr. R. R. BIGNELL. THIS EVENING, Reappearance at these Rooms, for a short series, of the celebrated M. LEVY, the Pagantni Cornet-a-Piston Player. The Whirlwind Polka—b uarcrs' Waltz—Carnival of Venice ; in addition to some Novelties. Selections at 9 o'clock. Conductor—M. L. CURTI. Doors open at half-past B.—Admission, One Shilling. Manager—M. GRENET. MEET H. 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The minutes of th e l ast Courts having bean rea d , The CHAIRMAN i n f ormed the Court that s i nce t h e i r l as t meeting, Mr Wright, w h o bad been for many years cr i er o f the Court, had died, and that in till interim he had directed Mr Rumbellew and Mr Sawyer, already officers of the Ccurt, to perform the duties. He moved that the election of a successor be referred to the General Purposes Committee in the usual manner. Mr LAURIE bore his testimony to the efficiency with which Mr Wright had discharged his duties during many years. He had formerly been confidential clerk to the late Sir T. Baker, the late County treasurer, who in his will had recommended him to the special care of his family. Mr H. M. KEMSREAD expressed a hope that among their present efficient officials some one would be found who would deserve the preference of the Court in the appoint ment of a new crier. The question was referred to the Committee. General Purposes The report of the visiting justices of Coldbath•fields Prison, which contained some important suggestions on the question of dietary was brought up and ordered to be printed and circulated and taken into consideration next court day, The report of the visiting justices of the W estminster House e Correction,printed Which p ropose d the adopti on o f t h e di e tary recommended b y the Home Secretary, was also ordered to b and tak en i n t o cons id e r a ti on th e next co unty day. . of Reports were also received from the visiting justices of the House of Detention and the Committee 01 Visitors of Haswell Lunatic) Afylum. Mr KEMSHEAD moved a resolution sanctioning the ex penditure of £1,500 for the erection of machinery, &c., to carryinto effect a plan for the ut i lisation of the sewage of Ha Hanwell Asylum, it having become necessary to relieve the river Brent of it. Mr MITCHISON hoped that the Ranwell visitors would take some means of deodorising the sewage. At a former period when the farm at Felthani had been irrigated with ophthalmia. sewage at least 75 per cent. of the boys were afflicted with Mr ANTHROBUS said the attack of ophthalmia had no thing to do with the sewage. Mr LAURIE pointed out that the visitors were not about to try experiments merely for the f ertilisation of the land. They were compelled to relieve the Brent of the sewage. and they believed that this was the most Effectual and economi cal mode of disposing of it. Of course the visitors would be glad of any suggestions. Mr WYATT said the plan had already been tried at Col. ney-hatch with a considerable part of the sewage without any ill effects coming from it. Mr THWAITES cordially supported the motion. He be lieved that a careful application of the sewage might to made without any of the ill effects apprehended by Mr Mitchinson, and no doubt with profit. The pollution of the a subject to which the W p a roably be c a ll e d next s b ot take pl ace . U n l ess some session, running attentionevoe fn str eams ifpParliament r ioi legislationafmt b e e n tcountry woulddidn thing were dune to stop this growing evil, ho feared that an epidemic might take place, and then Parliament would be called on to legislate in a panic. The motion was then agreed to. Alr Cox asked the Chairman for an explanation of a statement which he had seen In the public journals, signed by a magistrate then present, to the effect that an anony. mous pamphlet, in reference to a late discussion on the question of appointing a Roman Catholic chaplain to their gaols, had been printed and circulated at the expense of the county. He hoped to hear a denial of that statement. The CHAIRMAN said he must plead guilty to the charge, although it originated in a mistake. When he circulated the bill on the subject among the county magistrates, he had thought it right to append to it some observations of his own, and by some mistake those observations, in stead of being sent to his own printer, were sent to the county printer and charged for in the county accounts. The expense was just 41 18e 0, which, of course, he should hand to the treasurer, It would only have been fair of the magis trate who had written this letter to the papers to state what a small sum the cost was. (Hear, hear.) Mr SWIFT said it made no difference in the principle of the thing whether the charge was £1 18a 3d or £l3O. It cer tainly was most improper in the Chairman to print and cir culate at he public expense statements maligning a large portion of her Majesty's ouljets. The CHAIRMAN said, if Mr Swift would point out to him a single statement in those remarks maligning any one of her Majesty's subjects, he would withdraw it. Mr SWIFT repeated that there were statements in the pamphlet which were completely inaccurate, and which grossly maligned persons of the Roman Catholic religion. It was most improper that such statements should have been circalated with the county papers. Captain MORLEY, and several other magistrates, said they had received theirs quite separately from the county papers. The CHAIRMAN explained that a few had been sent out with the county papers, but the rest ho had sent out him• self. Mr Cox said he was satisfied with the explanation, and the subject dropped. After some other business had been transacted, the Court adjourned. Ethnological Society. The second meeting of the present session of this attractive society was held at St. Martin's-place on Tuesday evening, Mr I. Lubbock, F.R.S., presid ing, when papers " On the Present State of Da. homey," by Captain R. Burton, and " On the Prin ciples of Ethnology," by Mr J. S. Prideans, were read. Although the subject of Dahomey has been lately brought before the public by Capt. Burton's book, there was much matter in the paper for lively dis. mission. The kingdom of Dahomey has been for so long a period notorious for the alleged inhuman rites incident on the accession of royalty, and on the annual commemoration of these events, that all authentic and reliable information possesses more than ordinary interest; and the paper communi. cated on this occasion was the result of two visits in 1863 and 1864, and treated chiefly of the great custom, the precedence given to women and their employment as troops, and certain physiological characters of the natives. Since the first notice in 1724, by Mr Bullfinche Lambe, Dahomey has been the theme of copious writings and exaggerated accounts of sanguinary barbarities. The empire was founded soon after by 1620 by Da, the youngest, or second son of the King of Allada, within the domains of the King Awesu, the province of Uhwawe. The extent and population Capt. Burton also considered to have been grossly exaggerated in the published accounts, and not to be more at the present time than 36,000 square miles, contain ing 150,000 inhabitants, of which four•fif;hs were women and children—a population, not one third of what the land would support. Captain Snellgrove, in 1726, was the first Englishman that visited a Daheman monarch, since which time the practice of visiting the King has been regularly kept up. The stranger lands upon the beach of Whydab, congratulating himself upon escaping the sharks aed the breakers. He is then escorted with great ceremony to the town it self, about 50 miles from the shore. It is a large but decayed settlement, and has recently been nearly entirely destroyed by fire. With respect to the grand custom, as the sanguinary rites per.. formed on the accession of a new monarch to the throne in honour of his deceased ancestors are termed, Captain Burton gives a more moderate. ac count than we have been in the habit of hearing. In 1791 Mr Hogg and Captain Fayrer reported these ceremonies as lasting three months, with a sacrifice of not less than 500 men and a like num ber of women and children ; and in the last instance, in 1860, when Gellele, the present Sovereign, suc ceeded his sire, Gizo, he was reported to have pad dled himself in a canoe in a tank filled with the blood of the victims. Although we know from the missionary accounts that the slaughter was suffi ciently awful, there can be no doubt the statements which were propagated at the time were greatly exaggerated, and that the latter adjunct to the sto ries had no other foundation than the digging of pits of about four feet square for the reception of the blood, of the victims, who, moreover, are at both these grand customs as well es at their annual corn. memorations entirely criminals under sentence for capital crimes. Upon every ordinary death an in quest is held for the purpose of ascertaining that it has not occurred through violence. The time of execution is during the hours of darkness; and of these "evil nights" there were two in January, 1864. The public stay within doors under pain of death, and the King personally superintends the executions, the Premier, or "Mingan," and the " Men," or second Minister, also taking part in the tragedy. After death the bodies are exposed in the market place. But it is not at these " Customs "that the great loss of life takes place. Whatever action, however trivial, is performed by the King, it must be reported to his sire in the shadowy land, and a victim—almost always a captive—is chosen to convey the message delivered to him. An intoxicating draught of rum follows, and he is dispatched in the best of humours. Capt. Burton had heard of only one case where the victim had objected to lose his life, and although on the last occasion of the annual custom Captain Burton procured the pardon of half the victims, not one thanked him. There is another peculiarity—the corporeal duality of the King, worthy of notice. The Monarch is two kings in one—the King of the city and King of the bush and country folk. Pre. cedeuce is give❑ to the women over the men, and the King has a considerable army of Amazons, who are dressed in male uniform. When young they are compelled to dance and take other violent exercise, which renders them somewhat lean, bat as they advatce in years they increase in weight, and many of them strongly require the treatment of Mr Ranting. Of the elephant huntresses, the bravest of these women, 20 have been known to bring down at one volley seven animals out of a herd. At the attack in March, 1864, upon Abeokuta, these fe. minine soldiers were not conspicuous for their valour, but much may be said in extenuation on their total want of scaling ladders and other neces• eery military appliances. In the discussion Mr Galton made some admire able remarks on the commercial position of this large negro kingdom, and the chief causes of the interest taken by Europeans in the improvement of its condition. A second paper, "On the Principles of Eth. nology," by Mr J, S. Prideaux, was read. The want of precision in language, the dis cordance of opinion, the absence of order and method, so different from the regular and pro gressive growth of a system of ideas that has once attained a firm basis of truth to rest upon, in the author's opinion, proclaimed that in ethnology, the reign of chaos had not yet ended. When so many industrious and intelligent workers have laboured so long and effected so little of a durable character, it excited a misgiving that their efforts had not been made in the right direction. In the first place, no science is possible without preci sion of language. Mathematics offer an admirable illustration of the value of such accuracy of terms. On what foundatiocs do the ethnological doctrines of the day regarding the populations of Western Europe rest ? They are an attempt to interpret the phenomena these populations exhibit by the narra tives and traditions of the histarical period; in other words, man caving probably existed many hun dreds of thousands of years, the varieties of features he presents are treated as the out-growth of the last 20 centuries. Celt and Saxon aro examples of mere sounds with vague and uncertain meanings. The task that lay before ethnologists, the author thought, was to study that which exists at the present time, and to endeavour to recognise the numerous types effered . on all sides by nature to our view. Amidst all the amalgamations of races that have taken place nothing is mare certain than that types of great antiquity are always present in considerable num- bers and very tolerable purity amongst our popuia.. tions. The first effort then was to conquer a solid basis for the science in the recognition and identifi cation of existing types ; and the next, to study the phenomena presented by living peoples, and from the changes which are being eff,cted and the cvolu tions in progres3 to endeavour to determine Coe value and 5 ignilie:ltion of the types in our possession in other words, to eliminate tt.c laws that htve governed their origin and presided over their development, A lively discussion ferowe), in which Mr Crau curd, Professor Builr, Dr Hodgkin, Dr Hunt, Mr Nash, end the President were speskerA. The new fellows elucted were Viscount Milton and H. Danby Seymour, Esq., M.P. Important papers on the discovery of human res, mains and flint implements near Caithness, by Mr Lang, Professor Huxley, and Mr John Evans, were announced for the next meeting, which it was thought would attract an unusually large audience. Cotton Supply Association. At the usual meeting of the Executive Committee, held on Tuesday, Nov. 22, a letter was read, forward ing a pod of cotton recently pluced at Pompeii, and stating that the writer, when at Naples about a month ago, was much gratified to find sa large an area in the neighbourhood under ootton cultivation. He thinks gins are needed as he saw numbers of women and girls outside the cottages picking out the seed very carefully. A letter from St Martin, West Indies, reports that cotton is extensively cul tivated in that island, that the returns are remune• rative, and free labour cheap. The writer desires pecuniary assistance. A letter received from Go vernment-house, Antigua, states that cotton culti vation has greatly increased in that islaied—num hers are planting from 50 to 100 acres, and if the price does not fall below is per lb. there will be a very handsome return of £2O per ewe. The writer is extending his own efforts in conjunction with a very experienced planter. Samples of cot ton were received from the Governor-in- Chief of the Leeward Islands, which have been cleaned by the saw and Macarthy gins for the purpose of ascertaining the effect produced by each machine, A letter was read describing the efforts made by her Majesty's Counsel at the Navigator's Islands, South Seas, to induce the natives to grow cotton, and stating that he himself has about 26 acres under cultivation. The grant of a gin was made to assist the natives in their exertions, and as the climate is represented to be highly suitable, satisfactory results are anticipated. A circular was read from the Foreign-officEistat in g that the Franco- Swiss treaty, lately concluded, will reduce the French import duty on silk ribands 60 per cent. the advantages of which will be shared by British industry. Consular reports were received from the Foreign-office on the cultivation of cotton in Syria and Cyprus, Latakia, Tripoli, Bagdad, Bussorah, Moussul, Crete, Mexico, Central America, and Cape Verd Islands. Her Majesty's Consul-General at Beyrout reports that in Syria and the Island of Cyprus 25,140 acres were planted with cotton in 1863, and 53,000 acres in 1864—that 22,000ib of exotic seed were used in the former year, and 62,7501 b. in the latter. The pro duce in 1863 was 3 ,975,0001 b., and this year it is expected to be 8 , 9 00,0001 b., the greater part of which is now sent to England. The crops present a promising appearance, and are likely to be abun dant. They would be greatly increased by irriga tion, which is prevented by the general scarcity of water. Better protection on the part of the Go• vernment is needed to prevent in the South, of Syria the incursions of the nomad tribes, and in other parts the unjust exertions of- tax gatherers and petty governors. The permission to Europeans to hold land would be of great advantage, and would speedily lead to an improved system of agri culture. Ira the Vice-Cmsular district of La. takia the extent of laud platted with cotton has not been ascertained, but the produce which in 1863 was 200,000 ckes of 2 , 2 each, is e xpected this year to be 400,000 ekes, which is sent to *Marseilles and Liverpool. The cation crop is ex. cellent, and a considerable extent of virgin soil has been turned up this year. The small quantity of Egyptian seed that was sown has answered so well that general regret is felt that all the seed gratni. tously distributed was not planted, as it does not require irrigation, and there is a determination to make use of it next year. The inefficiency of the Government, and the prohibition to Europeans to hold land are represented to be hindrances to the extension of cotton cultivation. In the district of Tripoli the production was insignificant in 1863, and only for local consumption; this year it is ex pected to be 50,000 ekes. The cultivation will ins crease if Government will protect the plantations and provide seed at a fair price without the inter. vention of those who wish to made a profit by it. The report from the province of Bagdad states that up to 1863 the produce was unequal to the local con sumption, and was supplemented by importations from Persia. The crops last year were almost des atroyed by locusts. This year but little injury has been done, and the new lands planted with cotton are probably double the extent of previous years. Some American and Egyptian seed procured from Bombay was sown, and a considerable quantity of the latter has been brought from Suez for use in 1865. The country is highly favourable to the cul tivation of cotton, but under the existing system but little encouragement is afforded. Applications from native speculators to undertake the cultiva. tion of land for a term of years at a fixed rental, and proposals from British merchants to introduce pumps for the purposes of irrigation, are met by Namik Pasha with the uniform answer that the time has not arrived for taking them into conside ration. In Bussorah, Turkish Arabia, 200 acres were planted with cotton in 1863, and 250 acres in 1864; the produce was 14,0001 b in the former year, and is expected to be 23,0001 b in the latter. The district is well adapted to cotton cultivation, and the only hindrances are the insecerity of pro• perty, the native dislike to innovation, and the scantiness of the population. In the province of Moussul about 18,000 acres of land are annually planted with cotton ; last year the produce was 2,377,3501 b., and the crops appear to promise a considerable increase, the extent of which cannot yet be ascertained. Cotton has hitherto been grown only for local consumption, In Crete it has not been found possible to ascertain the extent of land planted with cotton, but the produce, which was 1,170 cwt. in 1863, is expected to be this year 4,000 cwt. The crops are promising, though in some parts they have been damaged by the early rains. But little use has hitherto been made of exotic seed, that of the country appearing to give a surer yield. In the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, the area planted with cotton from 1853 to 1862 was upon an average 40,240 acres, and during the last two years the increase has been about 60 per cent. The produce in 1863 was 2,500,0001 b., but this year it is not expected to ex. ceed 2,500,0001 b. In the past two years the crop has been nearly destroyed by the caterpillars. This plague appears to visit all the coast every . 12 or 14 years, for one or two seasons, and then d isappears. There is abundance of land suited for cotton, and labour oan be obtained from the upper country. In the Republic of Salvador the extent of land planted with cotton has nut been ascertained, and though under proper management the country could pro duce cotton, the people are without experience in the cultivation and are only now becoming fully alive to its importance. Her Majesty's Consul at Pernam. bums forwards a copy of a despatch received from the British Vice-Consulate, Paraiba, stating "that the cotton crop having partially failed in many places from the want of rain the quantity grown will be less I ban was estimated, and according to general opinion will not reach 50,000 bogs, Her Majesty's Consul at Mexico reports that he has had the queries of the asecciation translated into Spaniel), and heefing Ecd on the tion ofspinners and others. The collection comprises specimens of cotton grown in the various districts of Italy, and affords an illustration of what that country is able to produce. These samples may be seen at the room of the association, and the inspec tion of them is earnestly invited. An opportunity is thus afforded for forming a judgment of the qua.. lity of Italian grown cotton. The Royal Commission has determined to hold a second cotton exhibition in 1865, which will he opened in Naples in April next, and continued for a period of two mouths. To it all manufacturers of gins and agricultural imple4 meats are invited to send their machinery. Yarns and goods made solely of Italian cotton will be exr hibited, whether manufactured in Italy or else where. Prizes and medals will be conferred at the close of the exhibition. The Sheffield Inundation Subscription, A case of great interest to all who joined in the national subscription for the relief of the distress at Sheffield was decided in the Court of the Inundation Commission in Sheffield yesterday. Our readers will recollect that in the course of a few weeks after the disaster a subscription amounting to £50,000 was raised in the county, and that sum was placed at the control of a committee, of whom the Mayor of Sheffield was chairman, and the sufferers were relieved by eleven district committees, who disbursed many thousands of pounds in relieving the distress arising from the inundation. At that time the lia bility of the Water Company, under the famous Holmfirth clause in their Act of 1853, to make good all damage caused by the giving way of their works was fully admitted, but their ability to meet the enormous demand was not so clear. The Relief Committee, therefore, took promissory notes from some of the sufferers for the amounts they advanced, and in large numbers of other cases they got per sons to sign deeds, assigning the whole of their in terest as against the Water Company to the Mayor, in consideration of these advances. When the com pany got their Act a question arose as to whether they were liable to pay to these sufferers the amounts which they had received from the Relief C .mmittee, and the case was argued at great length before the Commissioners by Mr. Maniety, Q.C., for the Mayor, end Mr. Pickering, Q C., for the Water Company. Mr. Manis!y, on the part of the Mayor, who sought to recover the amounts he had advanced to the sufferers, argued that the Commis sioners had nothing to do with the Relief Com mittee, and that their judgment as to compensation must go entirely irrespective of tte obligations into which the claimants had entered with the Relief Committee. On the other hand, Mr Pickering sought to show that the company and the public were in the respective positions of assurer and assured; that the contract between them was a contract of indemnity, and that if the assured had once been recouped, no matter if by the hand of charity or otherwise, they could not claim against the com pany ; and he quoted the case of Mr Pitt's debts, where Goaernment stepped in after his death and paid his debts, and the Courts thereupon held that creditors who had insured his life for the satisfac tion of their debts could not recover from the in. suranco offices.. It was stated that the Mayor had abandoned all claim in cases where the amounts allowed were below £lO. The case excited great in terest, as it was understood that in the event of the Mayor recovering the sums advanced they would be added to the ample surplus in hand, and re turned pro rata to the subscribers, if the latter desire it. We ought to state here that id the course of bar Manisty's argument it was shown that the question of the liability of the company bad been raised in Leeds and other towns, when sub scriptions were asked, and the public wereexplicitly informed that promissory notes and other securities were being taken from the recipients of the fund in order to keep alive the claim against the Water Com puny. Upon the faith of that assurance large nums bars subscribed. A crowded court assembled yester day to hear the judgment, which was delivered by Mr W. Overend, Q.C., chief commissioner. He said. —We are of opinion that in all cases the persons with whom the Commissioners have to deal are the sufferers by the inundation, They are the only claims ants whom we can recognise, and no arrangement between them and third parties can dispense with the necessity of their appearing as the only claimants for compensation. The Mayor, therefore, not being a sufferer, has no locus itandi before us, except that he has sent in a claim as agent for and in behalf of some sufferers. The sufferer, however, even is the latter case, will be the person in whose favour our order will be made. With reference to the question whether the claimants' title to compensas Lion is extinguished or diminished by reason of their having received money either by way of gift or loan from the Relief Committee, we are of opinion that any payment or loan by such committee to such burs ferers does not affect their right to ask for full come pensation from us to the same extent as if no such gift or loan had been made. It is no part of our pro vince to decide whether the money awarded by us to the claimants is after wards wholly or in part, accord ing to circumstances, to be paid over to the Mayor. We purposely therefore avoid pronouncing our opi nion on that question, although it is quite apparent that in the event of the deed or promissory notes which have been executed by some sufferers being valid securities, the parties who have given such securities may, on recovering compensation from the Water Company, be liable for the amounts contained in those securities to the Mayor. We wish at the same time to state that, by abstaining not fro be mgiivnifnegrraednythsaut we eddeceissieiront,o throw ehao the thastliigthwteisltl doubt upon their validity. The Court then ed• journed for a fortnight, and will then meet again to hear the arguments in the great trade cases, in which questions of consequential damage are ine volved. We may add that while the company's witnesses in Parliament estimated the total damage at £350,000, the claims sent in amount to £455,000. The claims for propeity amount to £378,166; for loss of life, £46,221 (238 persons were druvmtd); and for bodily injury, £21,776. The Russian Government have completed the public line of telegraph throughout European Russia and Siberia in Asiatic Russia to Kiakhta, the frontier town of China. Kiakhta lies to the north-west of Pekin, and is distant about 750 miles from that city. It is, therefore, possible to send a communication from Landon to the capital of China in about four days. The line from St. Petersburg to Kiakhta extends over a distance of some seven or eight thousand miles, and its completion so far is an event of great importance, not only to European merchants. but also to the different Governments whose Ministers reside in the Celestial City. widely circulated them among tianpnitru.ternAk_ cotton he will forward the informationAiLielanayE be obtained, The report from the island of lien Vista, CapeVerd, states that only in that island is any cotton grown, and there merely in small quan tities for local consumption. The population being very scanty and poor, although the island has a large surface of land capable of producing cotton, there is but little probability that the cultivation . will extead without the aid of foreign capital and enterprise. The irregularity of the rains is a great drawback. A sample of the cotton grown at Boa Vista has been forwarded. A despatch from Smyrna reports that the injury done to the cotton crop in that district and also in that of Adana by the late continual heavy rains, which only cc 27th of October, has been very extensive, and owing to the cold Weather the pod are in a very back ward state; it is calculated that not more than 60,000 to 60,000 bake can be, expected from the dia• trio of Smyrna, and about 40,P00 bales from Adana. de:Tateh forwarde d by the Colonial cffice, wa9 received from the Governer of Gmbia, etowit g that the cultivation election hss largely it:era...sec/ in that colony during the last two years, and ex ,, pressing a strong conviction that this branch of in dustry will be still further developed. The upper river is represented to be capable of producing a large quantity of cotton, and the use of Egyptian seed is recommended in order to secure an im proved quality. A considerable quantity of nn ginnedcottons,ame of cotton received it is said,harsbeed from eievneaportedto Germany. ANatal grown from Egyptian seed. A large number of samples of cotton grown this year throughout Italy forwarded by the President of :the iloylittAliaUir OOMmission, engaged the special attention of the, committee, and well deserve the careful examinta- ~z~',~z:~dl(iii~ii~